Apparel Industry--- RFID digital inventory management of apparel

Every day, clothing is shipped out of the factory, and the cost of manual inventory, out-of-stock management, and theft prevention for these goods continues to rise. Retailers in clothing stores are under pressure to maximize the return on investment of business processes. Traditional inventory management relies on barcode scanning. For all goods entering and leaving the warehouse, barcodes need to be manually scanned, and information needs to be confirmed at multiple links; in addition , traditional barcode systems have obvious disadvantages, such as easy contamination, damage, need to stop and wait for scanning one by one, and high labor intensity of manual scanning. The efficiency of batch reading is not high and cannot meet the needs of fast and accurate; moreover, for bulk orders with multiple boxes, the boxes must be disassembled and assembled one by one, which is not only time-consuming and labor-intensive, but also easy to introduce errors.

To address the above issues, we use RFID solutions. With the help of radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions, we can understand the inventory situation more clearly and accurately, thereby reducing out-of-stock situations, increasing sales and reducing the workload of cycle counting.

UHF RFID technology can realize long-distance scanning and read multiple labels at a time. It does not need to unpack and read labels one by one, which improves the efficiency of inventory counting. It can also automatically collect data from warehouse arrival inspection, warehousing, outbound, transfer, warehouse transfer and other operation links to ensure the speed and accuracy of data input in each link of warehouse management, ensure that enterprises can grasp the real data of inventory in a timely and accurate manner, and reasonably maintain and control enterprise inventory.

Through full integration with the existing enterprise ERP system, it can also conveniently manage the batches and sources of goods, realize automatic comparison of inbound and outbound orders, and automatically issue alarms in case of abnormalities. Using the system's storage location management function, you can also grasp the current location of all inventory materials in a timely manner, which is conducive to improving the efficiency of warehouse management.

Use digital management system to manage the whole process of warehouse management, including purchase, sales and inventory, and integrate with the existing enterprise information system to build a digital warehouse management system for modern commercial enterprises. It can not only meet the requirements of distribution operation mode in modern logistics, but also be suitable for large-scale busy logistics distribution, ensuring high-quality data exchange in the supply chain. At the same time, through tracking solutions from the time the enterprise places an order to the supplier's production and improving its transparency in the supply chain, it can effectively improve the level of warehousing and logistics management, save labor costs, and play a huge role in the management of commodity supply chain links.

Program Objectives

Establish an RFID automatic identification system for clothing products: equip clothing and other products with RFID tags, and combine fixed readers, handheld devices and other data collection methods to automatically identify and collect data on goods entering and leaving the warehouse, so as to realize automatic and rapid inventory of clothing products, timely grasp the inventory quantity, monitor inventory assets and logistics transportation of clothing products, and trace the anti-counterfeiting of clothing products;

Build a clothing product information business process management platform system: On the basis of the existing information system, through the application of RFID, it is integrated with the existing system to establish a product information RFID management platform system, interconnect the RFID inlay tag logistics information with the enterprise scheduling and planning information system, improve management efficiency, realize transparency of the entire supply chain process, and reduce enterprise operating costs.

System framework diagram

The RFID electronic tag management system consists of: access server/warehouse entry and exit client/handheld terminal and communication network, as shown in the following figure:

The access server is responsible for real-time communication and data interaction with clients. It is deployed in CS mode and includes RFID tag protocol processing middleware. It is responsible for parsing a large amount of concurrent tag information and incorporating it into the database. Real-time information such as alarms should also interact with the corresponding business system in real time.

The inbound and outbound client includes the RFID reader access middleware, which is responsible for processing a large amount of concurrent RFID tag information, filtering and selecting valid data, performing anti-collision processing, and automatically comparing it with the order or delivery document information, and automatically issuing an alarm when it does not match. It also packages and compresses the tag information that needs to be uploaded for transmission, and also provides a manual intervention interface.

The handheld terminal can be manually operated to collect information about a single piece of cargo, and can perform real-time comparison and alarm. The collected information can be sent to the back-end system via WIFI or GPRS network, and can also be temporarily stored and forwarded.

Benefits after implementation

The benefits after implementation of the RFID electronic tag management system are reflected in the three words "fast", "accurate" and "economical". If the process is finely controllable, the result will naturally be correct and effective. The application of the warehouse RFID electronic tag management system will bring huge benefits to the enterprise:

1. Realize material positioning and quantitative management

2. Rely on information systems to control the entry and exit of goods to avoid human errors

3. Strictly implement the actual flow of goods according to business documents, and the cargo information is truly bound and connected with the business information

4. Real-time control of inventory data, reasonable maintenance and control of corporate inventory, and improvement of work efficiency and quality

5. Realize the traceability of product production process through automatic collection of material batch information

6. The RFID system will promote the transformation of the company's management model, from traditional management relying on manual experience to management relying on high-tech and precise digital analysis, and from post-management to in-process management and real-time management, which will accelerate capital turnover, improve the response speed of the supply chain, and will definitely enhance the company's overall competitiveness.

7. More importantly, each RFID chip has a globally unique ID number that cannot be copied or counterfeited, thus fundamentally eliminating the possibility of counterfeit products. After purchase, customers can enter the barcode ID number on the website to check whether it is authentic, providing the most effective technical means to combat counterfeiting in the market and protect corporate brands.

RFID technology can effectively promote the visibility of inventory, production process, assets, supply chain and optimal supply chain planning, so that resources can flow rationally to shorten delivery cycles, reduce inventory, reduce costs, increase speed and accuracy, and enhance corporate competitiveness. It is imperative to build an UHF RFID tag warehouse management system.